Magic is the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation, ceremony, ritual, the casting of spells or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature.

* Magic or Outer Power covers not just spells, but the supernatural world at large, using the explanation that the ritual of a spell ( a spell being anything from a prayer to alchemy ) channels expectation of the spell-caster into a desired effect.

In the limited series The Books of Magic, John Constantine explains to Timothy Hunter that because Dr. Thirteen does not believe, magic and the supernatural truly do not work for him.

Magic Realism is a technique popular among Latin American writers ( and can also be considered its own genre ) in which supernatural elements are treated as mundane ( a famous example being the practical-minded and ultimately dismissive treatment of an apparently angelic figure in Gabriel García Márquez's " A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings ").

; Abjuration: This school is focused on protective spells, as well as spells which cancel or interfere with other spells, magical effects or supernatural abilities, such as Break Enchantment, Dimensional Anchor, Dispel Magic or Remove Curse.

A script by Joseph Samachson from the 1940s — in which the elflike Willie Wisher banishes the Soldiers to " the Land of Magic ," where they encounter various supernatural characters — was later serialized in 1975 in Adventure Comics # 438-443, with each chapter illustrated by a different artist ( including Dick Dillin, Mike Grell, Lee Elias, and José Luis García-López ).

The Magic Box was also the headquarters at which they met to research vampires, demons, witches, and other supernatural and paranormal phenomena after the old high school and its library were destroyed.

Magic guns, also called spellguns or casters ( presumably short for " spellcaster "), are an element of science fantasy ( fantasy / science fiction ) that combines firearms and magic ( or some other supernatural power ) to create a weapon with properties of both.

Although all of Eager's other novels for children depict what are clearly adventures in supernatural magic, Magic or Not and its sequel The Well-Wishers are different in tone from his other books, because all of the " magical " events in these two novels are described ambiguously, with clues to permit possible non-supernatural explanations.

A supernatural entity that was mystically awoken through Black Magic and Black Cross Führer's powers.

Heroes who face the supernatural can be offered membership in the Office of Supernatural Investigations ( OSI ), which then allows them to take the OSI Chaplain and OSI Adept Prestige Classes ( which grant access to Divine and Arcane Magic respectively ).

* Magic: Three types of magic are detailed: Power Words, with a quick, small effect ; Sorcery, with pre-prepared spells as in many other game systems ; and Conjuration, the creation of small objects.

Murrayfield Stadium has also hosted the Magic Weekend where all Super League matches are played ( at Murrayfield ) all on the one weekend.

A Magic carpet, was legendary carpet that can be used to transport persons who are on it instantaneously or quickly to their destination.

But there are now claims that the claim " that religion evolved from polytheism to monotheism has now been discredited " ( p. 1763, Man, Myth & Magic, 1995 ).

Moreover, film adaptations of some novels are in preproduction, such as David Farland's The Runelords, and also Terry Brooks ' Magic Kingdom of Landover as well as The Elfstones of Shannara.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz, Billy Branch, John Popper, Tom Ball, " Dirty " Patrick Walsh, Big Dave Perea, Joe Filisko, Miles Ryan and others are keeping the harmonica tradition alive.

It takes as its model Mozart ’ s The Magic Flute, and its themes are magic, transformation and the dawning of moral awareness.

Mav of Sol Camp and MC Magic are the most successful rappers to come out to the Southwest region.

The game worlds in all of the Might and Magic games are quite large, and a player can expect each game to provide several dozen hours of gameplay.

His most recent works are Contagion, Haywire, and Magic Mike.

Magic packets are sent via the data link or OSI-2 layer, which can be used or abused by anyone on the same LAN, unless the L2 LAN equipment is capable of ( and configured for ) filtering such traffic to match site-wide security requirements.

Also, two large tracts totaling $ 1. 5 million were sold, and smaller tracts of flatlands and cattle pastures were purchased by exotic-sounding companies such as the Latin-American Development and Management Corporation and the Reedy Creek Ranch Corporation ( Some of these names are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in the Magic Kingdom ).

Additionally, they are located in four resort areas: Magic Kingdom Resort Area, Epcot Resort Area, Downtown Disney Resort Area and Animal Kingdom Resort Area.

The premieres of Mozart's operas The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute are each the setting for key scenes of the play.

Magic is weak where the Infernal is strong, though infernally-tainted magics do exist, and are usually of great power, in order to tempt Magi.

Magic is treated in this game-system as a serious object of study: Magi are supposed to spend a long time in their laboratories: preparing new spells, studying their Arts, creating magic-items, etc.

Lab Totals are calculated as the magus ' Intelligence + Magic Theory ability + sum of a Form and Technique + other bonuses.

These Formulaic Spells are somewhat rigid in their definitions, but are more powerful than the more flexible Spontaneous Magic.

Magic often utilizes symbols that are thought to be intrinsically efficacious.

Magic and religion are categories of beliefs and systems of knowledge used within societies.

Magic and science are both based on knowledge ; magic is knowledge of the self and of emotion, while science is knowledge of nature.

Key principles of utilizing Magic are often said to be Concentration and Visualization.

Susan Hall wrote that there is no rule of law in the books, as the actions of Ministry of Magic officials are unconstrained by laws, accountability or any kind of legal challenge.

In combat with enemies, the player must select from options such as " Fight ", " Magic ", " Run ", and often more complex situational commands like " Run my knife into the goblin's chest!

In the 1970s and 1980s, Industrial Light & Magic often used stop motion model animation for films such as the original Star Wars trilogy: the chess sequence in Star Wars, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, and the AT-ST walkers in Return of the Jedi were all stop motion animation, some of it using the Go films.

He also investigated the use of lenses as projectors and should be credited as the earliest inventor, developer and designer of the Magic Lantern rather than German scholar Athanasius Kircher who merely used much of Huygens research ( often quite inaccurately ) to document and publish on the subject.

Magic is often viewed with suspicion by the wider community, and is commonly practiced in isolation and secrecy.

* Electric and Magic are open-source software often used to lay out CMOS circuits.

State legislators from the Magic Valley traditionally hold their seats for long periods of time, subsequently the delegation representing Cassia County is often in leadership or chairs important committees.

In the United States, early children's television was often a marketing branch of a larger corporate product, such as Disney, and it rarely contained any educational elements ( for instance, The Magic Clown, a popular early children's program, was primarily an advertisement for Bonomo's Turkish taffy product ).

Wendy Faris, talking about magic realism as a contemporary phenomenon that leaves modernism for postmodernism, says, " Magic realist fictions do seem more youthful and popular than their modernist predecessors, in that they often ( though not always ) cater with unidirectional story lines to our basic desire to hear what happens next.

* Vibrator wands, such as the Hitachi Magic Wand, are large vibrators that generally plug into an electrical outlet ( versus operating on battery power ) and are often marketed as back massagers.

* Heroes of Might and Magic ( more often referred to as HoMM ), a series of turn-based strategy games by New World Computing.

Magic is not often used within a reconstructionist framework as there is little academic material to suggest that it was used widely in ancient religion.

Magic in literature, while condemned by some Christians, is often viewed by Christians as non-evil.

The new Queen possesses a mirror, an animate object that answers any question, to whom she often asks: " Magic mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?

The dwarf rabbit reference was an inside joke among WebTV's hard-working engineers — Phil Goldman's pet house rabbit Bowser ( inspiration for the General Magic logo ) was often found roaming the WebTV building late into the night while the engineers were working — although WebTV actually received inquiries from real research groups conducting similar studies and seeking to exchange data.

Mahler's first four symphonies are often referred to as the " Wunderhorn " symphonies because many of their themes originate in earlier songs by Mahler on texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( The Youth's Magic Horn ).

Instead of relying on the traditional " color wheel " conflict ( the game of Magic: the Gathering is based on a five-point circle of allied and enemy color affiliations ), the color any given card is may often be less important than whether it has a Kami or Material theme.

* The Lords of Order and Chaos: These two groups of magical beings have been fighting against each other since the beginning of time, and they often empower others ( with " Order Magic " or " Chaos Magic ") in exchange for their acting as their agents.

In the latter case, guests often prove incapable of reciting the lyrics to their own songs ; for example, Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers failed entirely to recognise a line from a song which he joked was " like the B-side from our first single ".

These attitudes occasionally spilled over into his other work, and modern editions of The Magic Pudding often omit one couplet in which " you unmitigated Jew " is used as an insult.

Other challenges for Rubik's Magic include reproducing given shapes ( which are often three-dimensional ), sometimes with certain tiles required to be in certain positions and / or orientations.

The Lingqu Canal (, often called the Magic Canal ) is located in Xing ' an County, near Guilin, in the northeastern corner of Guangxi Province, China.